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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"supply chain network"”.
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Supply chain network for hydrogen transportation in Spain
… interest in investigating the feasibility from a supply chain point of view. This thesis intends to provide a comprehensive study of the feasibility of hydrogen as a transportation fuel from a supply chain point of view. The aim is to discover the most efficient, sustainable, and ultimately most …
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Supply chain network strategy for consumer medical device introduction
… framework to model the trade-offs in strategic supply chain decision-making for a new product introduction in a real-world setting. The focus of the thesis is on a consumer medical device that Johnson & Johnson's Calibra business will launch in the future. As with any new product introduction, …
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Supply chain network design to minimize total landed cost
In recent years, markets and supply chains have become increasingly global in nature. Increased competition has driven the need for more efficient and cost-effective supply chain strategies and production methods. Firms have effectively used analytical techniques to develop manufacturing and supply …
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Supply chain network optimization : low volume industrial chemical product
… a big percentage of the delivered product cost. Supply chain practitioners in this industry need to make key logistics decisions to minimize C2S for profitability and business sustainability. In this thesis, we present a network optimization model to minimize the total C2S for SKU-1, a low volume …
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A Risk Management Tool for the Reverse Supply Chain Network
The forward and reverse supply chains have unique characteristics that vary among different organizations. Most organizations manage and quantify risks in the forward supply chain by utilizing various available risk management tools. These risk management tools have been developed solely for the …
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The Impact of Demand Information Sharing on Supply Chain Network
The conclusion of the study is that there is no overall information sharing policy that has superior performance in all scenarios. A hybrid information sharing policy is a solution that combines the best of both worlds by matching one policy's strength to another's weakness.
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Integrating Simulation–Optimisation for Multi-Objective Blood Supply Chain Network Design
… and floods can severely disrupt blood supply chains (BSCs), making the timely distribution of blood products a critical challenge. These systems are highly vulnerable to risks, shortages, wastage, and operational disruptions that may prevent life-saving blood from reaching patients. …
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Supply Chain Network Evolution: Demand-based Drivers of Interfirm Governance Evolution
… framework for a dynamic environment in a supply chain network (SCN) setting. This dissertation extends TCA and relational exchange to a dynamic, network environment. It uses the approach of building a simulation in order to study in detail the relationship between key exchange factors and …
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Optimisation of South Africa's biomass to bio-ethanol supply chain network
… study is about the optimisation of bio-ethanol supply chains for economic and environmental objectives, using a mathematical programming approach. A superstructure presented as a Mixed Integer Linear Programme (MILP) model that adequately captures the key variables in South Africa's bio-ethanol …
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Optimization of a supply chain network for bioenergy production from food waste
… present in this thesis to determine an optimal supply chain and processing network. We first develop a p-median model and determine an optimal grouping of the waste sources in multiple clusters where each cluster is served by a single preprocessing facility. This is considered as a proxy to the …
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Supply chain network considerations for e-retail of luxury goods in Canada
… website for Canada. This thesis aims to provide supply chain network considerations for the successful operation of the Canadian e-retail website for RL. These considerations stem from a careful look into potential luxury website characteristics that would meet the company objective of elevating …
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Process Modeling, Performance Analysis and Configuration Simulation in Integrated Supply Chain Network Design
Supply chain management has been recently introduced to address the integration of organizational functions ranging from the ordering and receipt of raw materials throughout the manufacturing processes, to the distribution and delivery of products to the customer. Its application demonstrates that …
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Green Design of a Cellulosic Bio-butanol Supply Chain Network with Life Cycle Assessment
… and optimization of a cellulosic bio-butanol supply chain network. This study focused on the development of a physical supply chain network and the optimization of a green supply chain network for cellulosic bio-butanol. To develop the physical supply chain network, the production process, …
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A hybrid crow search-based method for solving the closed loop supply chain network design
… large-scale facility location and Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Design (CLSCND). The main contribution is a decomposition-based method that combines a Binary Crow Search Algorithm (BinCSA) with Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) exact refinement: BinCSA explores facility-opening …
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Discrete Choice-based Equilibrium Modeling of Supply Chain Network with Conflicting Objectives and Demand Uncertainty
… thesis discusses several equilibrium problems in supply chain network integration and specifically concentrates on the importance of collaboration under conflicting objective decision-making and uncertainty management in a supply chain network. In particular, discrete choice models are introduced …
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